Although considering service reductions last year as a result of funding cuts by Nassau County, the agency has managed to continue normal service, and now add service, due to generous New York State supplemental and emergency funding won by State Senator Dean Skelos and Assemblyman Thomas DiNapoli, with the assistance of the Pataki Administration. The increased service includes new Sunday trips on the Hempstead N15, more reverse-commute departures on the N20 Hicksville-Flushing route, and service increases for N22/22A Hicksville-Jamaica, N24, N33, N57, N70, N73, and N91 JFK Flyer.

Even with the increases, the system will still struggle to serve its growing ridership. Other crowded routes include the N35 and N45 to and from Nassau Community College and the N4 and N6 to and from Queens.

Senator Skelos recently warned that state emergency aid to Long Island Bus was no permanent solution to the system's funding crisis (MTR #309). Without restored funding from Nassau County, the agency is unlikely to be able to maintain these recent gains and respond to further needs in coming years. However, another benefit of LI Bus' action is that any attempt to repeal of the service increases with further reductions in county aid to mass transit can be laid at Nassau County's feet, where the county executive and legislature are both up for election this year.